Swiss electronic musician Carlos Perón and German project Melting Rust Opera have released their new industrial metal single “I’m a Ghost” through Dark Daze Music. The single is the follow-up to their previous collaborative single “Start Again“.

“I’m a Ghost” is a one-track digital single with a running time of just over three minutes. The track was written by Carlos Perón, while Melting Rust Opera provide vocals and lyrics.

As pointed out, the single marks the second direct collaboration between the two. Their first joint track “Start Again” appeared on Dark Daze Music as a digital industrial metal single on 2 May 2025, with Perón composing and producing and Stefan Bahners contributing lyrics and vocals.Before these singles, Perón already worked with Melting Rust Opera on “Manipuliert – Carlos Peròn Trümmer Mischung” from the 2023 EP “Neue Trümmer” and mastered the 2024 album “The Power Of I Don`t Care”, which was also released on Dark Daze Music.

About Carlos Perón

Carlos Perón is a Swiss electronic musician from Zurich, known as one of the three founding members of Yello, formed with Boris Blank and Dieter Meier in 1979. He left the group in 1983 to pursue a solo career that spans electronic experiments, film soundtracks and conceptual releases on labels such as Ralph Records, Dark Daze Music and SPV. Early solo works include “Impersonator” (1981) and the soundtrack “Die Schwarze Spinne” (1983), followed by a series of fetish-themed and conceptual multi-disc releases in the 1990s and 2000s.

Perón founded the Eisenberg label in the late 1980s and launched the “Der Eisenberg Sampler” compilation series, later revived in collaboration with Norwegian label Sub Culture Records. His archival track “A Dirty Song – Long Version” from 1988 resurfaced on the compilation “Close Circuit Connection II” which gathered rare/unreleased material from Die Krupps, Numb, Trisomie 21, etc..

He also contributed the track “A Barrel of a Gun (El Presidente Peron Yeah John)” to the Depeche Mode tribute release “6122 (To Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode)“.

Apart from being an artist, Perón is also as a producer and mastering engineer for bands such as Punch ‘n’ Judy or Piston Damp (Apoptygma Berzerk side-project). Beborn Beton also worked with Perón in Switzerland and Cologne.

In 2025 Perón has been releasing a run of metal-leaning singles such as “Feuerherz”, “Dreck Weg!” and “The Trash Can Of Death” alongside “I’m a Ghost”, issued under his Dark Daze Music imprint.

About Melting Rust Opera

Melting Rust Opera is an experimental industrial and metal project based in Rheinbach, Germany, centered around musician and producer Stefan Bahners, with Wilson May contributing live percussion. The project emerged in late 2016 / early 2017 after Bahners’ earlier project Die Rostigen Loeffel went on hiatus. It combines industrial, avant-garde and noise elements with rock and metal structures.

The project’s own recordings grew into a discography that features the full-length “The Rise and Fall of Flesh Wire” (2021) and “different places” (2022), followed by the EP “Neue Trümmer” and the release “Broken Zukunft” in 2023, and the album “The Power Of I Don’t Care” (2024), mastered by Carlos Perón, and released it via Dark Daze Music.

When starting out they not only recorded own material but for instance also remixed Laibach’s track “Bossanova” for the 2017 single “Bossanova Remixes”. They also provided two remixes for Dagobert’s single “Das Mädchen aus der schönen Welt”, collected on “Das Mädchen Aus Der Schönen Welt (2 Remixe)”. Their remix “Orange Suns (Melting Rust Opera Remix)” appears on Anne Clark’s “Synaesthesia – Classics Reworked”, while “I’m Hurt (Melting Rust Opera Remix)” is part of A Place To Bury Strangers’ album “See Through You: Rerealized”.

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Carlos Perón, founding member of the Swiss electronic group Yello, has teamed up with German act Melting Rust Opera for a new industrial metal track titled “Start Again“.

Combining repetitive structures with aggressive guitar-driven elements, “Start Again” was produced by Carlos Perón. Vocals and lyrics are provided by Stefan Bahners, who emphasizes a thematic contrast in the track: “a positive message through mantraic lyrics”.

A music video is expected to be released soon, directed by Thorsten Hohgräwe.

About Carlos Perón and Melting Rust Opera

Carlos Perón co-founded Yello in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1979 alongside Boris Blank and Dieter Meier. He left the group in 1983 to pursue a solo career, focusing on electronic, experimental, and soundtrack compositions. His discography includes “Impersonator” (1981), “Die Schwarze Spinne” (1983), and a wide range of conceptual works and collaborations released through labels including Dark Daze Music and SPV.

Melting Rust Opera, based in Germany, fuses metal and industrial influences. The project centers around Stefan Bahners and has a background in audiovisual experimentation.

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(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange / Sub Culture Records press release) The Danish/Norwegian duo Piston Damp, currently residing in Sarpsborg, Norway, are releasing their debut single on October 16^th. Have a listen at the first track available at Bandcamp at the bottom here!

The duo consists of Jonas Groth and Truls Sønsterud; Jonas being the singer/songwriter/producer, with more than 20 years’ experience from both stages and studios all over the world, mostly connected to his brother, Stephan’s band, Apoptygma Berzerk. He also has
connections to various other acts like Magenta and The Anix. His production partner is Truls; musical arranger/keyboardist/songwriter, connected to various bands since the late 90’s.

Their new track ‘Something In Me’ was written and recorded this summer, with Stephan Groth serving as pre-production supervisor. It is mixed by Ole-Espen Kristiansen (Elec This!) at STUDIO+/-, and mastered by Carlos Perón (ex-YELLO), at Liquid Gold Mastering.
Something In Me also has a version called Noget I Mig with Danish lyrics, and both versions have several remixes (‘Pegboard Nerds Remix’, ‘The Anix Remix’, ‘Technomancer Remix’, ‘Extended 12”
Remix’, and more…).

Tracklist:

1. Something In Me
2. Noget I Mig
3. Another Pain (Blue Hearts Version)
4. Something In Me (Pegboard Nerds Remix)
5. Noget I Mig (Pegboard Nerds Remix)
6. Something In Me (The Anix Remix)
7. Something In Me (Technomancer Remix)
8. Something In Me (Kleinmelker Remix)
9. 9. Something In Me (Extended Remix)

All tracks written by Jonas Groth
Recorded, arranged, produced and programmed by Piston Damp at Brakka Studio, Tveter
All vocals arranged and recorded by Jonas Groth at Love Studio, Greåker
Snare drum on Another Pain by Truls Sønsterud
Tracks 1-3 and 6-9 mastered by Carlos Perón at Liquid Gold Mastering
Tracks 4 and 5 mixed and mastered by Alex “O” at PBN Headquarters, Hamar
Tracks 1-3, 7 & 9 mixed and engineered by Ole-Espen Kristiansen at STUDIO +/-
Track 6 recorded and mixed by The Anix
Track 7 recorded and mixed by Technomancer at The Technomantic Zone
Track 8 recorded and mixed by Kleinmelker
Track 9 remixed by Jonas Groth at Love Studio, Greåker
Final compiling and editing by Tomas Siqveland at Lydmuren. Greåker
Logo and design; Espenoo
Pre-production supervisor; Stephan L. Groth
Production office; Per Aksel Lundgreen
Worldwide digital distribution by Sub Culture Records – “Making everything great again”

UPDATED October 15th: Check their music video!

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(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange)
June 10th saw the release of yet another release from the ‘Der Eisenberg Sampler’ compilation series, this time the 10th edition! It’s a joint collaboration between Carlos Perón and the Norwegian label Sub Culture Records led by Per Aksel Lundgreen, whom I had a chat with to find out how this came together.

Per Aksel: Carlos started the record company Eisenberg at the end of the 80’s, and the first ‘Der Eisenberg Sampler’ was released on CD in 1992. When Carlos and Sub Culture Records started collaborating on digital distribution in 2013 these compilations where among our first releases. Carlos then wanted to continue releasing this series of compilations digitally, and now we’re at the 10th edition!
We’ve both chosen the tracks, and Carlos have mastered/remastered all the tracks. The Zone Tripper track is brand new and exclusive for this compilation for the time being, and the same goes for the Substaat track ‘Captivate’ featuring Psyokosister (aka. Hanne Haugsand).

S-L: Many will recognize Carlos Perón from other projects too?
P-A: Yep, he was a founding member of the legendary Swiss electronic band Yello and participated on their three first albums. His solo career spans an amazing number of albums, about 40 (!!!), including movie soundtracks. Most known would be ‘La Salle Blanche’, ‘A Dirty Song’, ‘Motorman’, ‘A Hit Song’, ‘Der Komtur’ og ‘Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted’.
He’s known from the New Beat scene too, where he broke ground with A Split Second and was one of those shaping things to come.

PS! Just as I was gathering info for this article, a MixCloud session with Yello tracks was forwarded to me from a friend, and who else than Carlos Perón made the introduction there!?

Check out the sampler yourself at Bandcamp or Spotify.

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Available now on vinyl is a selection of rare and unreleased material by such famous 80s electro bands as Click Click, Die Form, Numb, Borghesia, Front Line Assembly, Twice a Man, T21, etc. 10 tracks in total.

This vinyl collectors limited edition has been pressed on 500 hand-numbered copies, 180 gram vinyl, with no re-press scheduled. So better place your order now as these items are going fast.

The complete track list:

A1 Click Click – Nube (Remastered 2001)
A2 Die Form – Tecknoslaves (Unreleased Demo 1989)
A3 Crash Course In Sience – In Your Own Backyard (Unreleased Demo 1981)
A4 Numb – Push It (Rare Track From: VA-Operation Beatbox – 1996)
A5 Borghesia – Secret Affair No.4 (Unreleased 1984)

B1 Front Line Assembly – Resuraction (Ultra Rare Track From: VA-Electronic – 1985)
B2 Twice A Man – Cloud Sky Damage Version One (Unreleased Demo For “Driftwood” Album 1987)
B3 Die Krupps – Tod & Teufel (Live In Amsterdam 20 Feb 1982)
B4 Carlos Perón – A Dirty Song – Long Version (Unreleased 1988)
B5 Trisomie 21 – Youth Called To Edge Remix (Unreleased Version 1990)

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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